peachblossom's Blog

Following links this morning, I came across a blog about time management. It took me some time to read it because it's long :>) However, it may be of interest to some who struggle with getting it all done.

From personal experience I can say that slowing down IS a feature of aging, but there are techniques you can use that help you keep up. (Tweeple should ignore my tweet from the other night when I said "OK, this isn't going well. I admit it. I CAN'T KEEP UP!!!! ")

I've watched Oprah almost from the beginning. As a Phil Donahue fan, it was an easy transition, and besides I had my Sears VCR to tape her show while I was at work. I may actually have seen her first nationwide show, but I don't want to brag. I've seen clips from it so many times that I don't know for sure.

One more thing to be thankful for today is the $5 e-coupon offered by Harris-Teeter to be used on $30 worth of groceries between 11/26 and 11/30. This offer is good only if you join the VIC Coupon program that H-T started just a few weeks ago.

Today is the tenth anniversary of a tragic event. On December 18, 2000 a friend and I were leaving the Walmart parking lot when a woman drove by us screaming that her purse had been stolen. She followed the young robber who by now was racing away in a car driven by a companion. I called 911 of course but didn't know what happened until later that day.

"We lost forty-nine states, but we didn't lose our souls." That's a quote attributed to Sargent Shriver by Senator George McGovern. Shriver and McGovern were running mates in the 1972 Presidential election, after Senator Thomas Eagleton withdrew (because of the stigma associated with depression).

She sounds like an aging American woman from the South, and she is all alone in Cairo with thugs at her door. As everyone who has been paying attention to the events in Egypt knows, things were relatively peaceful through yesterday. Not any more. Mr. Mubarak will not be going quietly.